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Published on: Jul 11 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on USAID Global Workshop on Education and Development: From Evidence to Action
Inveneo is proud to be helping organize the ICT Petting Zoo at the 2011 USAID Global Workshop on Education and Development: From Evidence to Action.
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Lead by the USAID’s...
Published on: Jul 08 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Teledata ICT shows the future of cybercafes in Ghana
As mobile phone data plans drop in cost and more cheap smartphones flood the African market, what is the future of the Internet cafe? Could mobile data kill off cybercafés completely? Or are cybercafes still viable businesses?
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The first SMS, or “text” message, was sent over Vodafone’s network in December 1992. By most accounts, it read simply “Merry Christmas.” Using just fifteen of the permitted 160 characters, it was an appropriately...
Technology for converting solar energy to electricity was first introduced over 130 years ago, and it has been used to power PCs for more than 20 years. However, until recently it has been prohibitively expensive to use solar...
Published on: Jun 29 2011 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on How ICT can improve Technical and Vocational Skills Development
GESCI has recently published two papers trying to tease out key issues related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their integration to national education and training systems in Sub-Saharan Africa;
Re-engineering...
Almost since the very beginning of Telecentres/public access centres the nagging from funders – mostly governments but major NGO’s as well – has been directed towards making sure that these would somehow/sometime...
Published on: Jun 24 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Solar Power Resources for Designing PV Systems in Rural Computer Projects
There are two recent developments that have significantly lowered the cost of solar power systems for powering computer installations in remote or rural areas:
The power consumption requirement of low-cost computers and...
1) Can you give a little background to the BOSCO Uganda Project and your role in the project? How did you become interested in working in the HCI field.
BOSCO Uganda (Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach) is...
The practice of storytelling is a fundamental practice in communities through out the developing world. Storytelling allows for monumental moments of times past to be preserved through oral history, it is seen as a form...
Closing the access gap with low-cost broadband service delivery modelsJust 9.6% of the total population in Africa has access to the Internet. This is less than 1/5th and 1/6th of the rate in the Americas and Europe, respectively....
